CAREER: Advancing Adaptive Expertise in Engineering Education

该职业奖调查了挑战型课程是否在工程教育中被广泛采用，以及挑战型教育经验中的创新和效率增益是否转化为专业工程环境中的创新表现。PI将执行一项为期五年的发展和比较研究计划，该计划分为两个并行的、相互关联的部分。Strand 1涉及课堂研究，并讨论本科水平的工程学院如何在教学中创新，采用基于挑战的教学。Strand 2研究了从工程学习环境到工程工作世界的创新转移。两个主要的研究问题是：基于挑战的教学是否提高了代表性不足的学生的保留率，从而使他们留在通往工程职业和成功就业的管道中？这项工作利用了美国国家科学基金会对VaNTH ERC（范德比尔特大学、西北大学、德克萨斯大学和哈佛/麻省理工学院工程研究中心）的投资。此外，这项工作将通过培养工程师来更广泛地造福社会，这些工程师将为未来的领域挑战做好准备，并能够在全球经济中进行创新。该奖项由工程局、教育和人力资源局共同资助。

This CAREER award investigates whether challenge-based curricula are widely adoptable in engineering education and whether the innovation and efficiency gain in challenge-based educational experiences transfer to innovative performance in professional engineering settings. The PI will conduct a five-year program of developmental and comparative research organized into two concurrent, interrelated strands. Strand 1 involves classroom research and addresses how undergraduate-level engineering faculty innovate in their teaching to adopt Challenge-Based Instruction. Strand 2 investigates the transfer of innovation from engineering learning environments to the world of engineering work. The two main research questions are: Does Challenge Based Instruction increase retention rates of underrepresented students so that they stay in the pipeline toward an engineering career and successful employment in professional engineering? This work leverages the NSF's investment in the VaNTH ERC (Vanderbilt, Northwestern, University of Texas, and Harvard/MIT Engineering Research Center). In addition, this work will benefit society more broadly by producing engineers who are ready for the challenges of their field in the future, and who can innovate in the global economy.This award is co-funded by the Directorate for Engineering, and the Directorate for Education and Human Resources.